Pett
| Pett | ||||
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 Church of St. Mary & St. Peter in Pett |
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| Basic data | ||||
| status | Village and Civil Parish | |||
| surface | 6.5 km² | |||
| population | 846 (as of 2011) | |||
| Ceremony county | East Sussex | |||
| District | Rother District | |||
| Constituency | Hastings and Rye | |||
| Website: www.pettnet.org.uk | ||||
Pett is a village and civil parish in the Rother District of East Sussex , south-east England. The village is five miles (eight kilometers) northeast of Hastings on the edge of Pett Level , the unique cliffs that stretch along the coast of Rye Bay .
The road through the village leads down to a second village in the parish: Pett Level , which is on the coast and known as the Cliff End . Here is the beach and, as the name suggests, the sandstone cliffs. Pett Level marks the end of the Royal Military Canal and, at the substantial end, the 1940 Sea Defense Wall. The Anglo-Saxon Coastal Path runs through Pett Level.
The church in Pett is dedicated to St. Mary and St. Peter. There is also a Methodist chapel and a small church at Cliff End which is part of the Church of England.
history
The Pett estate was inherited by a number of families before it was owned by the Earl of Liverpool .
particularities
There is a post in the community of special scientific interest. The Hastings cliffs run along the coast and are of both biological and geological interest. The cliffs hold numerous fossils and, with the adjacent old forest and the pebble beach, offer shelter for many animals.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.roughwood.net (Engl.)
- ^ Churches in Pett (Eng.)
- ^ A Compendious History of Sussex , Mark Antony Lower, 1870, p. 82
- ↑ English website (PDF; 61 kB)
Coordinates: 50 ° 54 ' N , 0 ° 40' E